Sunday, November 16, 2008 11:09 PM EST
Research further debunks warmism
A federal government dominated by far-left Democrats will be a Godsend for radical environmentalism. As it is, to combat global warming, President-elect Obama intends to spend more than $100 billion the government doesn't have to further research alternative energy, and will push for laws that would make electricity, gasoline and heating oil more expensive, devastate the coal industry and make the construction of coal-fired power plants prohibitively expensive.
The Obama administration will be guided by the likes of James Gustave Speth, dean of Yale's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, who on the eve of the election lamented how green groups "have grown in strength and sophistication, but the environment has continued to go downhill, to the point that the prospect of a ruined planet is now very real." Behind his alarmism is an unyielding belief in man-made global warming, the case for which disintegrates further almost daily.
The theory took a devastating hit in October when two warmists, David Douglass of the University of Rochester and John Christy of the University of Alabama at Huntsville, said their latest research revealed "variations in global temperatures since 1978 ... cannot be attributed to carbon dioxide."
For 30 years, Professor Christy has been in charge of compiling and analyzing data from NASA's eight weather satellites, which daily take more than 300,000 temperature readings around the globe. The data show today's average global temperature is the same as it was in 1979. An unambiguous cooling trend since 2004 has corresponded precisely with a period of reduced solar activity and radiance.
Yet the theory of man-made global warming continues to disintegrate. Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientists are baffled by the worldwide spike in atmospheric methane in the last year. Warmism holds that such a natural increase in methane, which is 25 times more effective in trapping heat than CO2, is impossible, and it should have caused the planet to warm, not cool.
The evidence points to warming and cooling as natural cycles unrelated to man. However, facts and truth won't matter much in an Obama administration advised by greens who share the president-to-be's yen for socialism and environmental radicalism.
Research further debunks warmism
A federal government dominated by far-left Democrats will be a Godsend for radical environmentalism. As it is, to combat global warming, President-elect Obama intends to spend more than $100 billion the government doesn't have to further research alternative energy, and will push for laws that would make electricity, gasoline and heating oil more expensive, devastate the coal industry and make the construction of coal-fired power plants prohibitively expensive.
The Obama administration will be guided by the likes of James Gustave Speth, dean of Yale's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, who on the eve of the election lamented how green groups "have grown in strength and sophistication, but the environment has continued to go downhill, to the point that the prospect of a ruined planet is now very real." Behind his alarmism is an unyielding belief in man-made global warming, the case for which disintegrates further almost daily.
The theory took a devastating hit in October when two warmists, David Douglass of the University of Rochester and John Christy of the University of Alabama at Huntsville, said their latest research revealed "variations in global temperatures since 1978 ... cannot be attributed to carbon dioxide."
For 30 years, Professor Christy has been in charge of compiling and analyzing data from NASA's eight weather satellites, which daily take more than 300,000 temperature readings around the globe. The data show today's average global temperature is the same as it was in 1979. An unambiguous cooling trend since 2004 has corresponded precisely with a period of reduced solar activity and radiance.
Yet the theory of man-made global warming continues to disintegrate. Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientists are baffled by the worldwide spike in atmospheric methane in the last year. Warmism holds that such a natural increase in methane, which is 25 times more effective in trapping heat than CO2, is impossible, and it should have caused the planet to warm, not cool.
The evidence points to warming and cooling as natural cycles unrelated to man. However, facts and truth won't matter much in an Obama administration advised by greens who share the president-to-be's yen for socialism and environmental radicalism.